Abstract : “As the site of crossings of colonizers, settlers, merchants, and goods, island nations such as Taiwan have seen a rich confluence of cultures, where peoples and languages were either... Read more

A distinctive feature of Taiwan’s post-war economic development was decentralized industrialization consisting of a system of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) clustered in a geographical locale... Read more

Won the 48th Golden Bell Awards Best Television Film Best Director Best Script Best Supporting Actor Best supporting actress in the 15th Taipei Film Festival. Wu Nong-guo, a long-time social activist... Read more

In November, 2008, the Chinese President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, Chen Yun-lin, visited Taiwan. It was a critical moment in history: this was the first official... Read more

With the curious dream of going to Taiwan to eat its reputed bananas, Men-shuan joined the Nationalist army and came to Taiwan with its retreating troops in 1949. Yet, before long having being... Read more

Abstract: 2014 can reasonably be considered a watershed year in the so-called Greater China region because of massive protests in Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. Taiwan's Sunflower and Hong Kong’s... Read more

Abstract: Sociologists and other students of nationalism have become keen, even obsessive, students of national identity. However, as Brubaker and others have pointed out, the concept of identity,... Read more

Abstract: Although Taiwan and Palestine have no commonality in geographical, cultural, political respects, they have run a similar historical course from the pre-colonial through colonial to post-... Read more

Authoritarian ruling parties are expected to resist democratization, often times at all costs. And yet some of the strongest authoritarian parties in the world have not resisted democratization, but... Read more

A struggling young rock band singer, Aga (Van Fan), returns to his hometown Hengchun and works as a postman. He comes across an undeliverable piece of mail: seven love letters that were written for a... Read more